Updating authors

Currently this file lists only me. However other people have been contributing here. It would be great to have a more comprehensive list.

Also other projects tend to call this CONTRIBUTORS.txt. I think AUTHORS.rst just came from a Python project template tool. So it might be worth renaming.

Independently some of the source files have __author__ and __email__. The email referenced is dead and as already noted we have more people contributing. We might want to strip these out.

Not sure what other relevant changes we might want to include, but feel free to suggest.

[grlee77]

Just relying on the GitHub contributors page is also be fine by me. From the command line, one can run something like git shortlog --summary --numbered --email to get similar info.

[jakirkham]

I thought we could ask people to add themselves.

That was the original situation here too, but no-one ever updated that file.

That said, I don’t feel strongly about it. Some people do like the credit though

Sure, some people do like credit. I’m happy to highlight the github contributors page, I think that fills this function.

I’m more worried about creating only crediting some contributors & not others with a manually updated list. That feels more fraught.

Yeah that makes sense. If people are not doing this themselves, then agree we shouldn’t try to maintain the list ourselves.